Bedbug infestation-resistant furniture

Abstract

Bedbug infestation-resistant furniture items comprise one or more substantially horizontal platform member each with one or more relatively vertical downwardly-depending leg members. Each platform member typically includes a frame surrounding an interior region and an infill expanse extending across the interior region and overlapping a relatively horizontal portion of the frame. Each of leg members typically includes a substantially lubricious surface portion substantially encircling the leg member to frustrate bedbug travel along the leg member. The legs may be splayed outwardly and may be provided with stops therealong to facilitate relatively dense stacking during stowage, and to simplify unstacking. Bedbug infestation-resistant furniture items can additionally include one or more vertical support members extending upwardly from a platform member, and one or more connecting members extending horizontally between adjacent such vertical support members along a side and/or end of the platform member, providing for example safety barriers and/or enabling a user to easily mount an elevated platform member.

1 . A bedbug infestation-resistant furniture item, comprising:
 a first substantially horizontal platform member, comprising:
 a frame surrounding an interior region of the platform member and comprising an open-angled metal boundary member, wherein the boundary member includes a first relatively vertical portion extending longitudinally about a periphery of the frame, and wherein the boundary member further includes a second relatively horizontal portion coupled with and extending inwardly from the first relatively vertical portion; and 
 an infill expanse extending across the interior region and overlapping the relatively horizontal portion of the boundary member; and 
   one or more relatively vertical leg members coupled with and depending downwardly from the first platform member, wherein the one or more leg members each include a substantially lubricious surface portion substantially encircling the one or more leg members.   
     
     
         2 . The bedbug infestation-resistant furniture item of  claim 1 , wherein the one or more relatively vertical leg members splay outwardly from a first end thereof proximate the first platform member toward a distal second end thereof. 
     
     
         3 . The bedbug infestation-resistant furniture item of  claim 1 , wherein the one or more relatively vertical leg members are coupled with a lower side of the first platform member outwardly relative to an approximate center of the first platform member and inwardly relative to the boundary member. 
     
     
         4 . The bedbug infestation-resistant furniture item of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 a horizontal support member coupled at an end thereof with the boundary member, wherein the support member extends across the frame and underlies the infill expanse.   
     
     
         5 . The bedbug infestation-resistant furniture item of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 one or more vertical support members coupled at and extending upwardly from an upper side of the platform member at a first end thereof.   
     
     
         6 . The bedbug infestation-resistant furniture item of  claim 3 , further comprising:
 a base member coupled with a lower extent of the one or more relatively vertical leg members, wherein a lower side of the base member includes one or more surfaces configured for substantially parallel-planar confrontation with a corresponding surface of an underlying substrate.   
     
     
         7 . The bedbug infestation-resistant furniture item of  claim 5 , wherein the vertical support members comprise at least a pair thereof extending upwardly from adjacent corners of the first platform member. 
     
     
         8 . The bedbug infestation-resistant furniture item of  claim 7 , further comprising:
 one or more connecting members extending relatively horizontally between and coupled with the pair of adjacent vertical support members.   
     
     
         9 . The bedbug infestation-resistant furniture item of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 a second substantially horizontal platform member disposed above and coupled with the first substantially horizontal platform member.   
     
     
         10 . The bedbug infestation-resistant furniture item of  claim 9 , wherein a lower extent of a leg member of the second platform member is secured to the first platform member. 
     
     
         11 . The bedbug infestation-resistant furniture item of  claim 9 , wherein the second platform member is an inverted substantial duplicate of the first platform member coupled at an upward extent of the vertical support members, and wherein the one or more relatively vertical leg members of the second platform member extend upwardly from an upper side of the second platform member. 
     
     
         12 . The bedbug infestation-resistant furniture item of  claim 9 , further comprising:
 a ladder comprising plural relatively horizontal and vertically spaced-apart connecting members extending between and coupled with one or more vertical ladder support members, the ladder extending vertically between the first platform member and the second platform member.   
     
     
         13 . The bedbug infestation-resistant furniture item of  claim 9 , further comprising:
 at least a pair of vertical support members coupled at and extending upwardly from an upper side of the second platform member.   
     
     
         14 . The bedbug infestation-resistant furniture item of  claim 13 , further comprising:
 one or more relatively horizontal connecting members extending between and coupled with each vertical support member of the at least a pair of vertical support members of the second platform member.   
     
     
         15 . The bedbug infestation-resistant furniture item of  claim 9 , further comprising:
 a first vertical barrier member coupled with and extending upwardly from the second platform member along a side thereof and intermediate two adjacent corners thereof; and   one or more horizontal connecting members coupled at a first portion thereof with the first vertical barrier member, and further coupled at a second portion thereof with either of a second vertical barrier member or an upwardly extending vertical support member disposed proximate to a corner of the second platform member.   
     
     
         16 . The bedbug infestation-resistant furniture item of  claim 1 , wherein a width of the one or more relatively vertical leg members is greater at a portion thereof proximate to the first platform member than at a portion thereof distal from the first platform member. 
     
     
         17 . The bedbug infestation-resistant furniture item of  claim 1 , wherein the infill expanse comprises a substantially-open network. 
     
     
         18 . The bedbug infestation-resistant furniture item of  claim 1 , wherein substantially all exposed surfaces of the first platform member and the one or more leg members are chromatically configured to provide a substantially visually contrasting background relative to an ordinarily-colored adult bedbug present thereupon. 
     
     
         19 . The bedbug infestation-resistant furniture item of  claim 2 , further comprising:
 a stop coupled at an inwardly-orientated surface of one or more of the relatively vertical leg members, the stop being disposed intermediate an upper and a lower extent of the one or more leg members.   
     
     
         20 . The bedbug infestation-resistant furniture item of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 a pad member disposed at an upper surface of and substantially co-extensive with the infill expanse, wherein the pad member comprises either or both of a closed-cell polymer exterior and a contiguous, substantially imperforate case.   
     
     
         21 . A bedbug infestation-resistant bunk bed, comprising:
 an upper platform member and a lower platform member, wherein the upper and lower platform members each comprise a substantially open interior infill expanse coupled with a surrounding open-angled frame;   a first set of plural leg members configured to depend downwardly from and support the lower platform member above a surface of an underlying substrate, wherein one or more leg members of the first set of leg members are wider at an end thereof disposed proximate to the first platform member than at an end thereof extended distally from the first platform member;   a second set of plural leg members configured to depend downwardly from and support the upper platform member above the lower platform member, wherein the second set of plural leg members are configured to define a greater separation between the upper and lower platform members than a corresponding separation between the lower platform member an the underlying substrate surface; and   one or more horizontal support members coupled with the frame and underlying the infill expanse of each of the respective upper and lower platform members.   
     
     
         22 . The bedbug infestation-resistant bunk bed of  claim 21 , further comprising:
 one or more vertical support members extending upwardly from the upper platform member proximate the frame thereof.   
     
     
         23 . The bedbug infestation-resistant bunk bed of  claim 22 , wherein one or more relatively horizontally disposed elongate connecting members are coupled at each end thereof with one of a pair of the upwardly extending vertical support members. 
     
     
         24 . The bedbug infestation-resistant bunk bed of  claim 22 , wherein the upper platform member is an inverted substantial duplicate of the lower platform member. 
     
     
         25 . The bedbug infestation-resistant bunk bed of  claim 21 , wherein an exposed surface of one or more of the upper platform member, the lower platform member, the first set of plural leg members, and the second set of plural leg members includes a substantially lubricious surface portion chromatically configured to provide a substantially visually contrasting background relative to an ordinarily-colored adult bedbug disposed thereupon.